ABSTRACT
One of the central music-making tools in the 'Age of Digital Reproduction' is the 'Digital Audio Workstation' or DAW, a software package that includes a variety of options for recording and modifying sound, editing using several kinds of music notation, and controlling sound-producing modules that can be played in 'real time' or used to translate notational information into sound. 'Audio' is the term for recorded sound, while 'MIDI' ('musical instrument digital interface') is an alphanumeric code that in turn transmits information from a 'controller' to a sound-producing device. In the DAW interface, single notes or groups of notes in Standard music notation (SMN) can be dragged horizontally or vertically to new positions. The intensity graph, on the other hand, reflects only audio information. The concepts and activities of composition, notation and performance are so far described rather schematically as they may be understood in a context of Western art music and related genres that rely on SMN.
